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Commercial and Agricultural Magazine.

ÁCCOUNT OF MR. EDMONDS’S PRIZE: QX. With à Pläte. ¡TIE Fat Ox heré répréſeñted, Had thé hóñour ofrêceiving from the Smithfield Sociéty, at their laſt ſhow of edttles, the firſt prize for grafs-fed béafts. This ox, thowgl Very Iav&es was, in our opinion, the moſt beautifully propbrtióñed amal in the whole number exhibited. He was ó6f tlie true Herefotd- fhire breed, riſing ſix years old, had worked tirée years; and was fed by Mr. Edmonds, of Welford, néar Lechlade, in thé county of Glouceſter, who réceivéd a ſitáilár prize thé pretêd- ing year. He bad been kept in a fätting fffaté rather léls that twelve months, had never taſted'anÿ othér foód’ thañ graf in'-1ts greeñ atiddry ſtate; and, though he had ſuſtained‘conſidérable loſs by having been driven’$0 miles, Hé weighed, when Killed; 180 föhné, and was ſold, în the fulleſt market that ever was Known at Smithfield, for 651.

ÓN SPRING WHEAT AND EGYPTIAN WHEAT. To the Editor of the Commercial and Ag ricultaral Magazine. DIR»

N the preſent ſeaſon of general diſtreſs occaſioned by the high

price of bread, it‘becomes the duty of every member of thè community, to ſuggeſt any /pecies of grain, or mode of cultivation, which may ſeem likely to increaſe: the ſupply of corn for the enſuing year. The common wheat will, I preſume, be ſoWnñ largely. It may, however, be ſatisfactory to know, that the true ſpring wheat called the Siberian or Summer-whéat may be cultivared with ſucceſs, when ſown ſo late as thé begiñ- ning of May.

In the year 1797, after turnips fed off, from two buſhels of wheat ſown the middlé of April, I reaped three quartérs per acre;

In 1798, after tares and rye, two buſhels of ſeed ſown the latter end-of April, produced two quarters per acre,

In 1799; twa buſhels of ſcéd ſown ſo late as the 10th of Mays produced" two quarters per acre.[et ripened and was cut eârlicf than ſonié contiguous barley in the ſame held. I muſt rémarkz thar this autumn was uncommenly wet and unfavourable to thé ripening, of corn.

This T- believe is the lateſt ſown wheat ever véntured in this cóuntry, and ſtrongly proves the diſpoſition of this grain to ſpeedy maturation:

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